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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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More data is not always the answer.
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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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